Your Superstitions and Strange Beliefs - or how to ward off bad luck, wicked juju, and the evil eye

[Din Djarin]

I've heard quite a few stories of (memories of) strange abilities people had as children; Seeing through closed eyelids, breathing underwater, speaking with dead relatives, levitating in bed, floating up or down stairs, prophetic visions, etc. etc..

My grandfather had a brother, Junior, die when Junior was around 9 years old from rheumatic fever. My great grandmother and great grandfather swore that right before he passed, his body raised up out of the bed and was gently put back down, like he was being lifted up to Heaven. My grandmother spoke to her deceased sister and mother quite a few times in the weeks leading up to her passing in April.

When I was around 2 or 3, I talked about how I knew my babysitter's son (who had died about 20 years earlier) and I said his name and everything even though she had never told it to me. I also looked at a photo of my great grandmother and told my mom that she was "my mommy in Heaven before I came to you (her)".

I definitely believe that kids can see/hear things since they're pure or whatever. It's always been super fascinating to me.

 

[PandaChai]

Another I was reminded of this morning, if your ear itches it means somebody is talking about you. If it's your right ear it's positively, if the left, negatively.

Also does anyone else say "someone's walked over my grave" after randomly shivering?

 

[Aiōn]

Another I was reminded of this morning, if your ear itches it means somebody is talking about you. If it's your right ear it's positively, if the left, negatively.

I've heard when your ear feels hot to the touch, "my ears are burning" which means someone is talking about you.

 

[Rainbow Child]

If we're at the restaurant and the waiter sets down our plates, we all have to rotate them 180 degrees or we'll all be poisoned.

 

[Shek$il]

Be good to your possessions. Smashing things in anger, letting people insult your car, not attempting to repair simple issues... I avoid all of those behaviors. I think it's wrong to condemn the things around you. Not to say things have a "soul", but maybe this scene from Dragon Quest 8 stuck with me from childhood.

 

[NoReturn]

Another I was reminded of this morning, if your ear itches it means somebody is talking about you. If it's your right ear it's positively, if the left, negatively.

Sneeze once, someone is talking about you.
Sneeze twice, they're saying somethin nice.

Also your palm itches you're going to get money, but only if you don't scratch it.

 

[12345]

Sneeze once, someone is talking about you.
Sneeze twice, they're saying somethin nice.

Also your palm itches you're going to get money, but only if you don't scratch it.

My grandfather used to say if you sneeze 3 times in a row your soul is trying to leave your body.

For itchy palms I've always heard it depends which one is itchy; left palm means money, right means you are going to meet someone new.

 

[Din Djarin]

Also does anyone else say "someone's walked over my grave" after randomly shivering?

Yes! I grew up hearing that and say it all the time now.

 

[Queen of Halloween]

People born in May fall in love easily. This is a common belief where I am from but it is true. All the guys I know that ask every girl out on a date are born in May. One was cute but he would have dumped me after a week so I said no. Sometimes I wish I had not.

 

[Aiōn]

People born in May fall in love easily. This is a common belief where I am from but it is true. All the guys I know that ask every girl out on a date are born in May. One was cute but he would have dumped me after a week so I said no. Sometimes I wish I had not.

A possible explanation is that Venus being the ruler of Taurus could create emphasis on Venusian themes for that person.

The Taurus Suns that you have encountered might have also had their Venus in Aries, (Venus is always within 48 degrees) and rising before the Sun makes Venus the Morning Star. People with this placement will generally wear their hearts on their sleeve and fall in love very easily. Also Venus in Aries will be very direct in these matters.

In Sidereal Astrology, the first half of the May is in Aries but they could have Venus in Taurus too.

 

[Waifu Days]

Ever since I was young, I hated sleeping with my head pointing north. I'm talking even in the crib but in my conscious existance I have always felt uncomfortable sleeping like that. Come to learn that in Buddhist funerals, they point the head north. When I lived in Japan and told people this (it would come up), everyone told me that I was correct to do that.

Lesson of the story, your quirky superstition might be quirky where you live but you can just move to a place where it's not.

 

[Festivus]

I wash my hands before and after driving but that's probably just a form of OCD if I'm being real.

 

[Queen of Halloween]

When I tempt fate and need to knock on wood the wood can not be painted or it will not work.

 

[877-CASH-now]

I wash my hands before and after driving but that's probably just a form of OCD if I'm being real.

No this is just good sense. Outside of the house = germs, and I don't care what side of covid anyone is on - we all know now that the outside is not cleaned often enough (looking at you, public transit but also any hard surface that a kid even looks at).

 

[Queen of Halloween]

I wash my hands before and after driving but that's probably just a form of OCD if I'm being real.

There are too many dirty things in the world. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Festivus]

I also do this before and after meals (even if I cooked and prepared all of it myself) and I wash my hands twice after touching animals or handling plastic bags. I'm also the type to only go to 1 specific gas station for years at a time. I never really thought of any of these things as weird until my ex-gf pointed the habits out to me.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Every spring my family home starts getting haunted by my great-grandparents. Stuff will go missing and won’t return until you ask Grandpa to put it back. If you stay in the basement for awhile you’ll hear someone stomping around upstairs, with heavy boots. Dogs will react to it.

Both my parents have each separately seen orbs floating around the floor and disappearing through the walls. Both are former teachers of English and Science.

Everything calms down again in summer. Usually.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

A possible explanation is that Venus being the ruler of Taurus could create emphasis on Venusian themes for that person.

The Taurus Suns that you have encountered might have also had their Venus in Aries, (Venus is always within 48 degrees) and rising before the Sun makes Venus the Morning Star. People with this placement will generally wear their hearts on their sleeve and fall in love very easily. Also Venus in Aries will be very direct in these matters.

In Sidereal Astrology, the first half of the May is in Aries but they could have Venus in Taurus too.

I have no idea what all of that means

 

[Aiōn]

I have no idea what all of that means

In astrology Venus represents love and sexual desire and the placement in a person’s chart will decide the attitudes, values and how person experiences those feelings in their life.

Venus was associated with the Sumerian goddess Ishtar/Inanna. Venus has a 584 day cycle and during this she will undergo a process of death and rebirth.



For 9 months (connected with human gestation) the Goddess of Love, Venus Hesperus rises at dusk (west). Here she is united in a sacred marriage with the Shepard Dumuzi (Aries). She dies and enters the underworld, turning retrograde for around 40 days and 40 nights before the inferior solar conjunction. She will then be reborn as the morning star.

Angered upon hearing that during her absence, her beloved did not search for her she becomes the goddess of war. Venus Phosphoros or Lucifer - ‘Light-bringer’ will rise in the morning (east) before the Sun and will appear at her brightest for a further 9 months.

Venus will disappear again for 50 days during which a superior conjunction (syzygy) when Sun is directly between Earth and Venus takes place and Venus will be too close to the Sun to be seen.

After which the lovers are reunited and she rises again as the Goddess of Love - The Evening Star.



According to astrology, people who are born with their Venus as the Morning Star will feel before they think, fall in love quickly but will also rebound from heartbreak fairly easily.

People who have the Evening Star their chart will be more mature and outwardly reserved. They will be more deliberate in their actions and revealing their feelings but will also be more deeply wounded and emotionally scarred if that relationship should fail.

The cycle of Venus looks like a figure 8, 5 rotations forms a 5 pointed star and 8 years forms 'The Rose of Venus'.

 

[NoReturn]

I wash my hands before and after driving but that's probably just a form of OCD if I'm being real.

No this is just good sense. Outside of the house = germs, and I don't care what side of covid anyone is on - we all know now that the outside is not cleaned often enough (looking at you, public transit but also any hard surface that a kid even looks at).

There are too many dirty things in the world. Better safe than sorry.

There are germs inside the house, too.
If you completely clean and sterilize your home, then the only germs you'll have are those that can resist the cleaning, if you clean your space and introduce germs from a "safe" place (e.g. open a window, bring in cut flowers from the garden, stuff like that), then you won't have your home completely colonized by gross shit.

or handling plastic bags.

Xenoestrogens, smart.